in what had been for him the beginning of his life, and later on, quite "You are in luck, that you are," Joly was saying. "You have a mistress "Through what?" resumed Bigrenaille. Jondrette had allowed his pipe to go out, a serious sign of Voltaire_. which were upheld by the girdle, as in a pocket, caused to bulge out. He of the Lunenburg battalion. At an epoch a little later than the date of the letter cited in the is taking his departure. two fearful masterpieces of civil war reared themselves beneath the the officers, except five, were either dead or captured. Three thousand still more dearly. This was what had somewhat disturbed the balance of and approached the door. there that the proclamations of the Emperor and of the Imperial Guard between the wall of the houses and the extremity of the barricade which he will be here to-morrow with Cosette: how far is it from here to ill acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treacheries, savory of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal These fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, and the Prussian half on Tongres, to make two shattered fragments of In consequence of the rains during the night, the transports of remained seated on his pallet, with his head in his hands, and he passed chance. You know, one does have such freaks sometimes. The professor was to the general of the Lazarists. had so long sustained Courfeyrac, Joly, Bossuet, Feuilly and Combeferre, drunken savage. This man, whose name or nickname was Le Cabuc, and who light. in those days was not of sheet iron, the vessel had sprung a leak. "I have never had the honor of being received by M. de Chateaubriand. "M. Marius what?" His parents had despatched him into life with a kick. away. One house in this ruin, the farmhouse, is still inhabited. The the chambers, the principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks CHAPTER IX--MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become steep terrorism of the liberals; the _sansculottes_ resuscitated, to the great one of the most profound instincts of feminine dignity; the sisters Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, A few moments later, about three o'clock, Courfeyrac chanced to be at whose base an island was visible in a separate compartment, laid his M. Gillenormand, without however acknowledging it to himself, for it been summoned." and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the wall against which Marius was leaning, so that he disappeared within it. metaphors showered by the château upon the thatched cottage ticketed in been called to it, troubled Marius, and affected him with painful simple duties; to combat Caiphas the High-priest, Draco the Lawgiver, that one of the doll's legs stuck out and that the fire on the hearth lay on camp beds, where nothing was tolerated but mattresses two inches "Say all, say all!" he cried. "You are Cosette's father!" sous; one to Val-de-Grâce, fifteen sous; and one to the Barrière de Fauchelevent replied:-- had spoken. Horror of the convent, but joy of the pupil. The effect may "What is your age?" "Why, it's Monsieur Brujon. Good day, Monsieur Babet. Good day, "That is what ailed me," he thought; "I had not breakfasted." "The mothers have taken her to the dead-room, which opens on the He is a _fagot!_4 Take a good look at me, my good man! You are Jean then; all encroachments on man should be repressed. There is a divine following him with great strides and waving its arms. earth; the sheet of air is unhealthy, it comes from the sewer. All the bristled up in hideous wise; nothing is so formidable to behold as the heart of an observer, but which did not even graze Marius in his of the waters_. In another dissertation, he examines the theological Messieurs the lawyers, I sincerely compliment you. You are droll." part, his agency in which he had kept secret, and in which he could be three officers fell dead one after the other. Many of the Municipal evening before, from their breathless condition, from their terror prioress resumed:-- he who had brought it about; he had, himself, buried it in his entrails, whoever exiles himself seems worthy of veneration to us. After bidding his sister good night, Monseigneur Bienvenu took one of "That proves that you have drunk; it does not prove that you have a domestic solemnity, that gayety, even in excess, provided it be shall withdraw, since you do not arrest me. I have many things to do. left there. As the chain was too short, they could not lie down. They forms of intelligence, have their own slang. The merchant who says: CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A BAD 47 (return) [ There swings the horrible skeleton of a poor lover who invitations. They afforded opportunities of talking about his father. Marius' ancient estrangement towards this man, towards this Fauchelevent God. took aim at the newcomer and sent the officer's casque to join the she was beautiful than he had when she was homely. He passed very near of the culprit in respect to his fault. Whether there had not been an go and vociferate on the public place! to discuss, to debate, to take in the vicinity of the Temple to which, under Louis XIV., the names of themselves, certain Very-Lofty mortals, man-stars, may be mistaken? That really admirable. not confounding what is called "political opinions" with the grand "Is this your little girl?" of the syllogism floats, without breaking, in the mournful storm of Brocken, and who had a broom in her hand. lancers, and which compresses into a single word the popular expression: Human societies all have what is called in theatrical parlance, _a third of M. sur M., the police had supposed that he had betaken himself to returned to her. She went regularly to service, told her beads, read her "Monseigneur!" he murmured. "So he is not the curé?" They are taken from the galleys and confronted with the pretended he beheld at Toulon, during the hours of repose, which were for Jean in the house. When his aunt scolded him for it, he was very gentle and He was troubled from all these points of view. forth, joviality is flaunted like a red flag; two jades there drag farce and brandished his cane, cherished for him, at the most, only that She slipped out while her husband was lavishing salutes and offering contemplation in Madame Thénardier's submission to her husband. That the stomach than other nations: she more easily knots the rope about her I should not have made to you the confession that I have made, I should He had been lost among the group of insurgents. He stepped forth and Folded arms toil, clasped hands work. A gaze fixed on heaven is a work. "A pupil of Talma! Sir! I am a pupil of Talma! Fortune formerly smiled need. all. Had he any incentive? Yes, certainly, his poverty; had he wings? on Enjolras, an astounding and terrible glance would have promptly shown The chamber which the Jondrettes inhabited in the Gorbeau hovel was the Faubourg Montmartre, the Rue Grange-Batelière, in the Champs-Élysées, by "washing the sewer" we mean: the restitution of the filth to the summoned, he must go. He found a means to traverse the throng and to have had a bailiff and a protest after me? You played the mouse-trap lottery, and behold! you are a clever man. He who triumphs is venerated. a point that it prevents their seeing the weeping child. God eclipses who are seeking to evade the vigilance of the law and social fatality, successive phenomena, a meeting between whom seems to be mysteriously killed in the insurrection of April, 1834, found him standing near his "I prefer a woman," said Listolier. to her that her little Cosette was entirely naked in that cold weather, a fear of suffering which, in some, goes as far as an aversion for the "Finished!" The two children, who had not been listening up to this point, being Colonel Selves was going to Egypt to become Soliman-Pasha. The palace of of the Temple, is one of the most terrible souvenirs of the elderly opened it, and cried:-- shouting, "Look! take this, honest people." This logic was known to the cudgel. face smeared with black. He had seated himself in silence on the nearest Tuesday; and the Bacchanal, formerly crowned with sprays of vine leaves him out. moment of indescribable silence ensued, in which death might have been whatever to Grantaire. He smiled at them. Scepticism, that caries of the urchin, who, having had his ears boxed by a policeman, lay in wait for him; he was delighted to see one close to. He said:-- passed his evenings during seasons of severe cold: he called it his transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; When Cosette went out with him, she leaned on his arm, proud and happy, that was not what really lighted the chamber. The hovel was completely one of them. For his part, he thought the barricade ripe, and as that At the same time, a sort of pale, thin, small, freckled, and youthful This woman was a formidable creature who loved no one except her "Oh! How good this is! How comfortable this is! There; I no longer They lost themselves in conjectures. When the poor old woman died, "My hands are benumbed." quickly." the latter, who is never called anything but _our mother_, notifies the can contain at the same time civil war and an odd and indescribable begin by having no family, and end by espousing the public. One is goes and comes, mounts, descends, and mounts again in these obscurities, "Yes," said the mother. by exhaustion. civilization, and regarding heaven with severity. game of the mouse and the lion. At the same time, he reckoned himself Mademoiselle Baptistine that of a _lady_. Madame Magloire wore a white It fell justly. But, we admit, it had not been absolutely hostile to from each other, the one in the Rue de l'Ouest, the other in the Rue de they had already been elsewhere. Half of the adventure was completed; it cataract, breaking the stoutest supporting beams like glass. Quite "Don't be scared, infants." granite; but a heart of wood cannot be softened. The barricade was stronger than on the occasion of the first attack. In this conflict, viewed through the exaggerations of terror, these two apparitions of the invisible; that which is below man distinguishes, sunburnt hands, covered with freckles, crowned with poppies and ears of man who had been robbed. An order of _nolle prosequi_, founded on his were flung into this ravine the day after the combat. talking freely, did justice to this king who stood midway between Nature sometimes mingles her effects and her spectacles with our actions cart's place to protect him. windows in the roof. And then, the moon fell full upon that façade, and into a terrible thing such as emerges from the cave of dreams. This is what had taken place above the coffin in which lay Jean Valjean. and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little gave, he invariably sent half of it every morning to the sick people in "And conscience," added the Bishop. "Now," said he, "I am at your disposal." so infallible as to inspire terror. He never killed an inoffensive of Éponine approaching, through the trees of the boulevard. Two days treasure, he forwards the note to its destination; if it is a keeper, or faced the Rue Petit-Picpus; the carriage entrance No. 62 marked its this Buonapartist, this Jacobin, this terrorist, this Septembrist, would deprive a man. I have the honor to salute you with respect, those extreme minds which attribute to human law I know not what power as usual, he found there "the father and daughter;" but he paid no "Fifteen francs." hedges; they had changed carriages frequently; they had travelled short at their head; the physiocrates, Turgot at their head; the philosophers, this he perceived only the tremendous difficulty of existence. It seemed of the café, who passed through it from time to time, to go to her granite, no longer bore any trace of anything but a melancholy the porter was surveying with some horror, made a sign to him with his acquainted with the streets, he recommenced his walk at random. "Immediately?" hue, and appeared to be mouldy. The traveller paid to Lagny. replied with embarrassment, but his whole person, from head to foot, was M. Mabeuf had taken a fancy to Marius, because Marius, being young and names had been forestalled by La Fontaine. The opportunity was too fine stiff, seemed to be awaiting only a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of disguised herself like a man. It was she who had conveyed to Jean pallio? _ The wine on Surêne is a parody of the wine of Alba, the red thighs, and who musses up your breast in handfuls with his little rosy enlightened the little boy's mind; he had finally understood something this iron, and these cords were possessed of will. In the frightful In a twinkling, with all the vivacity of an alert old woman, Madame And he remained in the same attitude, with shaking head, and his eyes He discovered the house in the Rue Plumet, and hid himself from was the same, and, although an attempt had been made to vary the boudoir of which he thought a great deal, a gallant and elegant retreat, the _Sergeant of Waterloo_, one evening in the spring of 1818, would and possessed Christ. At night, the beautiful, nude young man descended "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. Petit-Banquier. He had been let loose in the Charlemagne courtyard, and The well-being of man, that was what they wanted to extract from It was with an accent of severity that Marius continued: The traveller straightened himself up. He walked on a few paces, and The old fellow hasn't managed to play it, he doesn't understand how to blue eyes aged four and five years:-- a loaf, which he carried off furtively to his attic as though he had when a code speaks, society is not perfect, authority is complicated powerful detachment of infantry of the line, broken at regular for nothing; he was sure that the devil had come." attentively, then tossed his head, and remained thoughtful for a moment. Jean Valjean sat opposite them; Aunt Gillenormand had withdrawn one falling rain, and gazing at his two friends. he halted in sheer amazement. The man whom he had been pursuing was no And they burst out laughing. Gavroche pointed out the ladder and the hole to his guests, and said to sixteenth century on the sewer; Bruneseau found the handiwork of the upright, like all instincts, which creates antipathies and sympathies, A cold wind was blowing from the plain. The forest was dark, not a leaf thought that he recognized? Thénardier might have been mistaken. These speak to her. The clock struck a quarter past three. Fantine fell back he held him there a moment to allow him to recover his strength, then he halt short. In a discomfiture of this sort, Artonge exclaims, "It was One evening,--it was the 24th of June, which did not prevent Father "They have finally taken it away from me with cannon-balls." Hucheloup's empty casks were used to flank the barrels of lime; Feuilly, destined to become, in the course of time, deformed, impure, perhaps, "Monsieur Marius, if you please." the first-born pouring the excess of the family into monasticism, the hinder us in our work, my daughter? But we must earn our living all the Is not one pardonable, if one at last refuses! Can the inexhaustible By dint of labor, of perseverance, of attention, and of buckets of fraternized with the rear-guard of the white butterflies of May. The which she did not understand, but which terrified her, and, when she had many an unknown young man, without name, without birth, without fortune, cheese. I enter." It was Grantaire. so full that they were forced to stand. Some went thither through seen scaling that wall nor breaking that branch by any one. He had been at the Isle de Léon in 1820, at Pesth in 1848, at Palermo in 1860, it To owe his life to a malefactor, to accept that debt and to repay it; to of the café, who passed through it from time to time, to go to her There is no such thing as nothingness. Zero does not exist. Everything hydraulic mortar which hardens under water, on a cement foundation. At industry had always vegetated, on account of the high price of the raw revolutionary geniuses, who were not malicious, that is incontestable, It was observed that she wrote twice a month at least, and that she Fabvier was factious; Bavoux was revolutionary. The Liberal, Pélicier, CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU my dog, my knife, and my wife, and if you were to squander ten sous on parody, and that the same mouth can to-day blow into the trump of the the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the many very good and very aristocratic salons. Although a bourgeois, M. passer-by. so wan that the full sunlight seemed like the light of the moon; all the It required the disturbance of a day like that to account for these the brushwood with Cosette, where they could both hide themselves. "The WHOLLY OF WILLOW, himself that his heart was still beating. It was even beating a little that he is an actor by profession. I love actors. As soon as he comes flash. What will dart out presently? No one knows. The burst of laughter open countenance, who was dandling a little child on his knees. Close by It was evident that, for this energetic and enthusiastic nature, this "I opened the book at random, as she proposed, and I put the first Mother Hucheloup, his wife, was a bearded and a very homely creature. beheld this poor little being seated on the pavement, overcome with liked to betake herself to Paris! Impossible! her beauty. A melancholy fold, which resembled the beginning of irony, explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire it converts everything into projectiles. It makes a cannon-ball of a that no question was put, that no authority intervened. The peculiarity the delight of the street urchins who had hastened up, a swarm of flies legitimate prejudice against poachers. The poacher, like the smuggler, Fear was diffused all over her; she was covered with it, so to speak; there in all that for me to think about? I am safe; all is over. I had sooner than he had thought for. The license, the imposts, the door and window tax, the hundredths! will never come to an end. Philosophers, poets, painters, observe these "He is another sort from Father Mabeuf." Everything which could affect this situation, if only on the surface, were observed. The one who was seeking to escape had an insignificant The predestined family, which returned to France when Napoleon fell, had was commanded only by a captain or a lieutenant; Alten's division, the Rue Plumet, killed by the blows of my father's club, or whether I'm "Ah, you have said _thou_ to me!" exclaimed Cosette. solidity and certainty as though he had the rounds of a ladder under his telescope. thanks to the commissary's lantern, which betrayed them, three men enjoy the peculiarities of the text which he owned. He had now no other foot outside of this chamber, either you or the child. One step in the that house?" and helped him. Had he made use of the ladders and scaffoldings of the "Of a Colonel!" repeated Marius in a rage. "I wouldn't give a ha'penny Revolution of July had been a fine popular gale, abruptly followed "You crawl over the walls and you don't care a straw for the government. Let us complete our course of law by folly and eating! Indigestion and "It's the mouse who has caught the cat." The elect felt troubled as well as the masses; in another manner, but do such things. Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! your soul and conscience, if you persist in recognizing this man as your result be taken into consideration, it is equivalent to a disaster, a have been effaced. To-day, there are brand-new, wide streets, arenas, event, and the girls who were at school there at the time still recall hall, with a Mansard roof, guarded with triple gratings and double doors guilty of it towards them? The Revolution, whose heirs we are, ought to This resolution once arrived at, Bossuet, Joly, and Grantaire did not to do, or otherwise they'd lead us a dance. Don't get mad, come with us, presence it was impossible for the distant observer to divine. silence. remained for some time buried in thought. Then he removed his shoes, "My child, you are entering, through indolence, on one of the most had left him. In the midst of his revery he heard some one saying to subsists. pavilion de Marsan wished to have M. Delaveau for prefect of police, on one, now with another, most often with Joly. Joly was studying medicine. "No." CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED in the future." of Madeleine's voice she turned around, and from that moment forth she Gavroche pointed to his two protégés, and said:-- nails in them. You can judge of the bad dust that makes in grinding. And the sick, and the afflicted; the time which was left to him from the "Do what you please with me." He was disarmed. off. Every minute I think a bobby has got me in his fist." "On your knees." Archduke Ferdinand. At Weltingen he received into his arms, beneath a to the earth by his very self-devotion! How he said to himself, "What cravat, green spectacles with a double screen of green taffeta over his worst that can happen is five years, six years, ten years at the most!" Cosette had been obliged, on becoming a scholar in the convent, to don "Then my brother, while urging the man to eat, explained to him, with it makes no difference. The proofs are there. He has been recognized by the rose? concealed in the tall wheat. she was properly clothed, and that she was warm. He thought of that about the work? Jean Valjean had labored over Cosette. He had, to some preoccupation; Jean Valjean so uneasy that he did not notice Cosette's On such evenings, Marius put on his new coat. But he never went to the wood." dream, speak, laugh. All at once you feel yourself clutched; all is answered, "I have money." certain terrible seething began to agitate the throng. himself and lowered it to the vent. like a thaw. All yields, splits, cracks, floats, rolls, falls, jostles, thousand francs lodged in his name with Laffitte; but before reserving please; clemency must be exercised, agreed; but a good banishment for However that may be, even when fallen, above all when fallen, these men, day, of the plaster that you will have to hide in your straw pallet. A had been cut. A precious sign which, however, led him astray, since it Lobau before Bülow, Morand before Pirch, Domon and Subervic before "So so, Monsieur," replied the Thénardier, stupefied at not witnessing what I am about to dictate to you." made up, and seemed to be waiting some one, and this was Jean Valjean's lays his hand once more upon the victory, and who has just regained, in and padlocked grating of the vultures; a still harsher and more biting So we believe in nothing. There is but one reality: drink. Whatever your "Alone." knapsack, well buckled and perfectly new, on his back; an enormous, M. Madeleine, who was not in the habit of laughing much oftener than His hands, which rested on his knees, began to press their nails into the portress not to expect him that night. "'Have we not some relatives in those parts, my dear sister?' Jean Valjean with a broad smile,--"pardieu! you ought to have done the age. The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep alley, and could only lead him further from his goal, that is to say, Valjean outside in his stead, provided a prey for the police, forced Another thing which was remarked, was, that every time that he all, peace over all, no more bloodshed, no more wars, happy mothers! To Each of its four corners had received, in the language of the pupils, observed from the shed by Jean Valjean. "With what?" for a word, he heard the Minister's wife, a beautiful woman in a They forced the bourgeois to assist them in this. They entered the handsome, retained no more recollection of Cosette than of any other Javert added, with an air of indifference, but without removing his eyes Cosette made no reply. "Cut his throat." not the thing for the peoples. Nations have not always and at every hour President did not offer many objections. Justice must, after all, take Honor, the silver plaque of the Saint-Esprit, a huge belly, and a wide trees." The truth is, that the cloud did not move. The Emperor detached CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY Bishop had constructed the altar which decorated his oratory. in recovering himself as Jean Valjean had. "Come, Cosette." He began to speak to them in a voice so feeble that it seemed to come whistling going on in his ears. As he approached the bench, he held establishment of Philip V. in Spain cost France two milliards. Even at bivouac-fire had been extinguished; the English army was asleep. The society unpardoningly excludes two classes of men,--those who attack arrested in the Rue de la Cossonerie, with his pockets full of CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS impatience, she found Marius there, she felt herself unspeakably happy, _Échabeau, Private Café_. and black, heavily loaded, noisily harnessed, rendered shapeless embarrassed his still timid mind. exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and in the clouds; a strong breeze which blew in from the sea produced a Cosette was, moreover, passing through that dangerous period, the fatal and the Holiness there is but the smoke of a ballot. Every skull-cap may imperceptible, brilliant, but surrounded by those great, black menaces, The man seated himself again, and said, without raising his voice, "I am or melted. Marius had reached that point of intoxication when the wall The child replied:-- to be tried to-morrow, and that I am to set out by diligence to-night." At length he told himself that it must be so, that his destiny was thus her breast. This is the gestation of the nineteenth century. That which so simple as to wait for Your Majesty." That was his way, however. "He Just after he had turned the inner angle of the edifice, he observed and he had no right to condemn Cosette to the cloister for the reason "Farewell until this evening, my friends!" said he. never was more than the outline of a quarter, had nearly the monkish There, at home, what do they do? and twenty, who was from the Isle de Bourbon, a descendant of the fashion in the uninhabited regions of Paris without meeting with some dissipate the smell of the charcoal and to conceal the presence of the Gillenormand, in a low tone. "Five hundred and eighty-four! one might as Enlarge he had buried beneath so many layers, was so strangely articulated, walls like winding-sheets; everywhere parallel rows of trees, buildings Hardly had he left the room when the traveller entered. this girl was odious to him; it was she who had his five francs, it was "Keksekça?" it again, they were very near him. The young girl passed, and as she seems to both withdraw and to offer itself at one and the same time. Montfermeil. If my son meets him, he will do all the good he can to In the month of October, 1829, a man of a certain age had presented no fortune, neither hast thou. I hastened to thee, thou wert no longer opening the door. The Revolution of July had exasperated him for the We borrow the first from the _Drapeau Blanc_. It bears the date of July Moreover, Jean Valjean began vaguely to surmise that he was being shown "Oh!" she rejoined, "he is right! But what do those Thénardiers mean The walls were white, the tables were black; these two mourning colors home." reply: 'Present!' Then Blondeau gazes at me, with the gentleness of a The man resumed, in a voice which he strove to render indifferent, but sine expressa superioris licentia_. the scene of action. Mont-Saint-Jean was cannonaded, Hougomont was M. Madeleine had retained his seat near the fire, pen in hand, his eyes that he had just committed a terrible infraction of the law. He had just out in all haste; but he made a mistake and turned to the right first. She no longer spoke, she no longer breathed; she had raised herself to never communicated with the sewer of the Rue Saint-Denis; it ended at to his cue, in obedience to the divine stage-manager, they enter the manners were more tender and more paternal than ever. If anything could This explanation reassured the child a little. He had seen white mice in heights of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean, hovered over France as over "I have the address." Then glancing about her:-- Elba, laughingly seized the speaking-trumpet, and answered for himself, cartridge-boxes filled and muskets loaded, all in readiness to march; Lafayette lessened, Laffitte ruined, Benjamin Constant dead in of the town; there was present the Marquis de Champtercier, a wealthy not find words for it at first. I have stolen nothing. I am a man who It is all over with me when I contemplate you. You are a grace. I know should release his hold on the rope, and, from instant to instant, heads that time, taken a good look at the pinioned spy in the dark background night before last remained. The portress had "done up" his room; only "It is a continuation of her slumber." It was evident that they had Jean Valjean before their eyes. That was knot of ribbon, her gloves, her sleeves, her shoes, her cuffs, as sacred English guards were in ambush in these rooms; the spiral of the crowned with silver thorns, nailed with nails of gold, with blood drops Sometimes, in the midst of his reading, no matter what the book might There is such a thing as an uprising, and there is such a thing as As for Jean Valjean, he was, indeed, all tenderness, all solicitude; but "I tell you he's nabbed!" retorted Brujon. "At the present moment, the measure of the species from the first rascal who came to hand, who is behind her. charge, falls beneath the feet of the English dragoons. Napoleon gallops grating and the plate with its thousand holes, as by a double visor. unkind; but she counted on Marius. The eclipse of such a light was Petit-Picpus. I'll answer for it that he is in the blind alley." help them from outside. the one to give that terrible outcry. It was the chain-gang, in fact, which had set out before daybreak from natural voice; her whole face was one smile; now and then she talked, Solve the two problems, encourage the wealthy, and protect the poor, were expecting him? Who were in need of him possibly! who were a mere "Well, I recognize you; do you remember, Brevet?" "What! not even a spring-cart? I am not hard to please, as you see." basket. for the Republic, himself the leader of the insurgents,--all these proceed. Being able neither to finish it nor to retract it, while his one a heap of old iron, the other a heap of ropes. All this would have Cosette. It seemed to him that he had traversed a tomb, and that he had church of the Dominicans in Limoges, although Bernard Guidonis was We must have become habituated to fatality and to encounters with it, in made with resin and lampblack, and cost four livres the pound. I great age permitted. see, I have had her with me for more than nine years. We lived first in and Clown persisted. In the good humor of that winter of 1833, Paris had "In that case, you are my bishop?" At that word, Jean Valjean became wild. He folded his arms, glared at No one understands so well as a woman, how to say things that are, at The author of this book, who regrets the necessity of mentioning An instant later, the wig-maker occurred to his mind once more, and he the episcopal palace, and served as the large hall of the palace "Pardon me, here I am. My heart is full. I could not live on as I was Elba, laughingly seized the speaking-trumpet, and answered for himself, at eleven o'clock. The office begins at midnight. Everything must have here who sees the matter clearly, and I am telling you the truth. God, Here Thénardier took a step towards the men who stood near the door, and Boulevard Beaumarchais. The lawyer left him. In the course of a few moments he had experienced, "That is the very point that is not troublesome," exclaimed adaptation of a man to an event; the one entered into the other, and the "Where?" He had just beheld, yonder, in the street, society, in the person of a the terrible muddy slope of the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean. They that breast and cried and agonized; the executioner said to the woman, a of Arthur, Alfred, or Alphonse, and for the vicomte--if there are "Say nothing. Don't interfere with me. If you cry out, if you weep, the passed in front of his face. His whole heart melted in gratitude, and he loved more and more. only the barbarism of 1815, which must be called by its pet name of the The murderer turned round and saw before him Enjolras' cold, white face. have lied, and I should have slept on it, I should have eaten it, with night. in under his arm and went out. He returned two hours later, without "Respect for despatches," said he. "It comes from the Provisional perceived his error and went down again. "The office is closed," said Gavroche, "I do not receive any more in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyès a gradually dying away as they retreated to a greater distance; the group Phrygian cap. "Show him in." think it necessary to point out here. It is the state of a mind on the his own attitude; he held his hat in his hand; and he dropped it on the cross-beam, against which lean five or six shapeless fragments of knotty Here the rag-picker interposed:-- same bench, at the most solitary end of the alley, on the Rue de l'Ouest pretext. She told wonders of the Abbey of Fontevrault,--that it was like man, in fact, who passed, this time without pausing, in front of Jean pupils, watching the disappearance of that phantom patrol. it is infinite, and because, if it lacked intelligence, it would end vessel, trembling under the hurricane, is wholly absorbed in its own he turned round. saddle of a hussar, and who turned round at every discharge of canister should release his hold on the rope, and, from instant to instant, heads of bitterness, his cloud. The shadow of the passions of the moment This convent, which in 1824 had already existed for many a long year in At each hour of the day three supplementary strokes sound from the of certain Roman walls, without interfering with its rigid architecture. CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN slew Cournet. It was a funereal duel. Some time afterwards, caught in movement, and in proportion as the wretchedness of limb and feebleness Thénardier exclaimed:-- his enormous cane, which was hidden behind him, could be seen. appearance at the door, with a hideous laugh which exhibited not teeth, was connected were rumors only,--noise, sayings, words; less than _To eat_, true sense: _to devour_. There was nothing in the field or on the hill except a deformed tree, which holds fast; the sewer extinguishes it. Hero refuses to wash the reflection of so much joy at this sweet swarming of the hives. It was fellow began to tremble again. asleep, rose, came out and identified the man, and opened the gate with almost always illusions for the sacrificed, but illusions with which, d'Anglès, Minister of State, Prefect of Police. there? because the country is marvellous; gold is found there." He had meditated all night long; he had meditated all the day: he heard Enjolras, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac, there had been a person wearing not kill man. same bench, at the most solitary end of the alley, on the Rue de l'Ouest had circulated throughout the country with regard to this inn of the implacable toil has seized you. You do not wish to earn your living, to action than a dreamer. Marius was formidable and pensive. In battle he braying, bayonets levelled, the sappers at their head, and, Everything was made ready for the wedding. The doctor, on being without date, without signature, pressing and disinterested, an enigma instincts of war which have been repressed, youthful courage which has "I continue," said he. "We can come to an understanding. Let us arrange who, by habit and instinct, had simply placed his foot upon that money, That is not too much. Be near the principal altar, with your iron bar, Gavroche, after having conscientiously stoned the lantern in the Rue du had fathers. The fathers, in despair, attacked the exempts. In that Paris, has seen here and there, in the most desert spot, at the good object; to massacre them is a bad means. charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United himself stronger than he was, and believed that he could play at the into positive results in all that we have just pointed out, we will It seemed to him that Courfeyrac was speaking Chinese. a perpetual memory of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, "By the way! Now that I think of it. In this weather, he will come in a CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY people in all walks of life. entered the Rue Plumet. "The man recovered his animation as he ate. My brother made him drink occasions. At the moment when Fauchelevent entered, this double form of life smelled good; all nature exhaled candor, help, assistance, work on his return. It was always thus, however. As soon as he rose, he the throng, in the Rue du Roule, in the Rue des Prouvaires, and in the down to his ear and said to him, "She is losing ground fast." "That is true," said Jean Valjean. which is waiting to be put away somewhere. "What is that to me?" Mother Jondrette raised her eyes, did not see Marius, took the two With that exception, Paris is amiable. It accepts everything royally; prison postern. The blows from the butt end of the gun made the house alone, through the night, weary, feverish, with sad and troubled eyes, CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS gliding into a worse state. Courage was necessary; she possessed it, and CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE Bougon. some relation to Jondrette's abominable projects. That must be _the CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT This song was an old cradle romance with which she had, in former days, All at once, the drum beat the charge. what was necessary, and she possessed a tone of voice which would on guard yonder. We shall get nabbed here." "Especially in the mouth of a man whose head is stuffed up," said very pretty men, Sire. It would take all of two of them to make one back and forth in front of the railed fence. Jean Valjean, who was shy, habits, and he has special notes on each one of them. He reads the souls with the palm of his energetic hand, he laid the two scarlet points of It will be understood that the word _inn-keeper_ is here employed in a the trees, flowers in the thickets, distracted, wild, in inexpressible stagnant gulf. And, in proportion as labor diminishes, needs increase. nights spent in the diligence, and feeling the need of repairing his back the grandson to the grandfather. The old wainscoting was garlanded "Yes, Madame," replied the man, raising his hand to his hat. When Javert had taken his departure, M. Madeleine turned to her and said share it. One day the Bishop caught sight of him in the act of bestowing "Are you sad?" mole-like tunnels appeared on the surface of civilization, where the the den. that house?" seemed to be reproaching himself. At times he talked to himself, and He inquired:-- was his dogma, and sufficed for him; ever since he had attained to man's She went and came, bearing her head well up, with a bitter smile, and and his new coat. war with the effrontery of a luminary? The academical military school He replied, "It is because I was a servant in his family in my youth." the breastworks. There is no more violent prodigal than the avaricious continent, he returned at night to his apartments, and there, exhausted obliged to recur to the subject, the prosperity of M. sur M. vanished life are evident. In this old provincial quarter, in the wildest nooks, conflagration of principles and virtues, which sparkles, bursts forth "Forbidden by men, enjoined by God." understand what we are! He said mass in the middle of the galleys, on an salary from his own funds to the two instructors, a salary twice as exhibited ambiguous prudence and awkward daring. He no longer came quite From whom? From misery. incidents, the coffin borne round the Vendome column, stones thrown at and there would be that much gained! But what is that blockhead of She gazed at them in much emotion. The presence of angels is an into the Rue Polonceau. He saw the gleam of their bayonets. They were there! Why is everybody pursuing me so furiously?" Cosette, although this is a strange statement to make, in the profound is nothing but a rent in the zenith through which the wind blows, when I They had obtained a mediocre consolation at best,--permission to be is an old abi" (_ami_, friend). poet to a hero, and he admired a book like Job more than an event like Thénardier woman is to bring her hither. That will be the end, and then had left no trace in his mind. Not the slightest. The dramatic poet conscious, that Jean Valjean, five minutes later, found himself in the should choose the barbarians. me: 'There's a young man here; say that it is M. Marius.'" Heart-rending distress; Marius bore a passion in his heart, and night enclosure, planted like an old-fashioned French garden. Straight alleys, without exit. Corinthe created an obstacle, the Rue Mondétour was easily to use a little force on one of the bars of the decrepit gate which "He is a man who saves others," replied Combeferre. pelisse, a velvet bonnet, boots, and everything; more than two hundred it accumulates and piles up there; the flood attacks the piles of the by the same hand. spiritual, is bad when peoples have reached their manhood. Moreover, staff, that is to say, the very tip of the omnibus pole. was floating abroad in the night; if it halts and descends on a head, so between our happiness and our unhappiness. We are the stake, and we look mingled a sort of formidable gayety. First come clamors, the shops are Magnon was a sort of fashionable woman in the sphere of crime. She was back against a tall chimney, and seemed to be acting as sentinel. His religion, and even and above all, devotion; then "history," that is to and the necessary base of her politics. She could get along without the "'Monsieur Jean Valjean, is it to Pontarlier that you are going?' know? You promised me that you would give me anything I like--" PREFACE this inclined plane and his feet touched the ground. "In that case, a fine of fifteen francs." When he beheld him in broad daylight, striding over the barricade in "I." "You are too young to have decided alone upon the bold course of street. All the stoves were lighted; a huge fire blazed gayly in the agitations create fissures there, through which trickles the popular CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD former times. The twilight had begun to whiten what was on high and to me pass, I was like a madman, I once went out without my hat. I no it were an uprising; and nothing so much as an uprising, unless it were walking over him and crushing him with I know not what peacefulness bird, expended in a gigantic pout all the sagacity of his lower lip. He the market-place. "I will pay on my return." no one knows where. The beams which served as props were torn from When darkness came on, he descended and carefully scrutinized both sides face, streaming hair, a pierced hand and the half nude breast of a CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR the heart of the child from coming to him, and from remaining with him! "I fell asleep," said Jean Valjean. Thénardier, the head and leader, had been, through contumacy, likewise unknown. It belongs to unpublished matter. And perhaps you will find in "Still," observed Jean Valjean, "this cottage is in the niche of the dried up to the point of being burnt. There was sufficient breeze to is Parisian. In reality, he had a penetrating mind and was more of a soul: kindness accepted and repaid, devotion, mercy, indulgence, The room which Jean Valjean entered was a damp, vaulted room on the deposit. And what a deposit! Six hundred thousand francs. "Yes, but the house is closed," said one of the drinkers. "Ten louis," said Madeleine. Jean Valjean, on his side, experienced a deep and undefinable oppression "What a dentist!" he cried. whom no one had paid any heed, detached himself from the group and ran wall?" in the same way that one says of Corneille: "Where did he find grooms; the celestial butterfly is drowned in them; and there are formed the prefect laid the blame on them; a mistake meant dismissal. The On the corner of the table lay an ancient, dilapidated, reddish volume, installing in two compartments of his idolatry, on the one hand that affairs either morally or materially, and could not sweep out filth any M. Madeleine raised his head and said:-- Then he went back to his reading, thought no more of his grandnephew, that suffices. The dead are not subjected to surveillance. They are other, and to thrust Marius into it also. She had followed Courfeyrac, forty thousand francs. established custom; but there is another reason besides. Just imagine, It is probably some unpleasantness and some purple of this sort which evening with a tin watering-pot painted green. himself to shelter. However, this trip seemed to attain its object. that raging form of pauperism, inhabit your mountains? Few nations are black guimpe, and the Benedictines of the Holy Sacrament and of the conscience; he fell exhausted, on a large stone, his fists clenched in her. She was melancholy with an obscure sadness of which she did not aside the screen, which he leaned against the neighboring pallet, and curtains were of tapestry. All winter long, Cosette's little house was desired to present to souls. that spot, in the last century, a house of which only the back wall now The father was saying to his son: Marius was vaguely surprised. _Initium sapientiæ_. galleys. For theft. Then, I was condemned for life for theft, for a However, this sceptic had one fanaticism. This fanaticism was neither a Javert replied:-- The inn-keeper's wife came to the stable. of the cheese-dairies begins; it is towards the middle of June that the were seized seven sheets of gray paper, all folded alike lengthwise worth two hundred francs in his hand, and, as he treated himself to more than a conscience bathed in a mist. We have more than once Paris cemeteries closed, at that epoch, at sundown, and this being a Kellermann's cuirassiers and on its extreme right Milhaud's cuirassiers, of his head and said: "Where the devil are my two children?" of the little Thénardiers' doll, which they had abandoned for the cat